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In message <[email protected]>, "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" writes: > > >Via Red Herring: > >"Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the cable operators� right to bar c >ompetitors from their lines, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is tak >ing up the obvious question of whether the same rules should apply to telephon >e companies that sell DSL service." > >http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=12580 > >From today's Wall Street Journal: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin plans to act as quickly as possible to change the agency's rules so phone companies won't be required to share their Internet lines with rivals. "We'll need to move quickly to establish regulatory parity between telephone companies and cable companies that are providing a broadband service," Mr. Martin said in an interview yesterday, a day after the Supreme Court upheld the FCC's decision to allow cable companies exclusive access to their broadband Internet lines. Telephone companies are currently required to share their digital-subscriber lines, or DSL, for the Internet with rivals but want similar exclusivity. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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